As total newcomer, what would you suggest as first steps with Tor? No mission critical application.

  • ksynwa
    2·
    4 years ago

    if you are on linux you can search for torbrowser-launcher. it’s a good way to start using tor.

  • dioramaOP
    1·
    4 years ago

    Hey all! I started with command line torsocks (here) and wish to change appearance of the prompt. For the moment being, I added an if-statement to my .bashrc checking whether LD_PRELOAD is unset, but I found that solution peculiar to my case. Any more general solution?

  • dioramaOP
    1·
    4 years ago

    Thanks for all, folx!
    What if I visit .onion versions of websites via the Tor browser instead of the non-onion versions?

  • dioramaOP
    1·
    4 years ago

    I did not like that the Tor browser is not accessible via the start menu (in my case: xfce4-popup-whiskermenu). Therefore I installed the application with the following:
    sudo desktop-file-install /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop
    but I received the warnings as follow:

    warnings 
    /usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character ''' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '|' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '|' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '(' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '&' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '&' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a non-escaped character '$' in a quote, but it should be escaped with two backslashes ("\\$")
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '$' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character '*' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character ')' outside of a quote
/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop: error: value "sh -c '"/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" --detach || ([ !  -x "/home/username/Programs/tor-browser_it/Browser/start-tor-browser" ] && "$(dirname "$*")"/Browser/start-tor-browser --detach)' dummy %k" for key "Exec" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a reserved character ''' outside of a quote
Error on file "/usr/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop": Failed to validate the created desktop file

    Do you find it a bad practice for you? Is that suspicious?